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I'm way more worried about Russian nukes than American ones. They can't keep truck tires maintained, who knows what sorry state their nuclear infrastructure is
by evilos 4y ago
I'm way more worried about Russian nukes than American ones. They can't keep truck tires maintained, who knows what sorry state their nuclear infrastructure is in?
The Chinese government has overt control over any Chinese corporation of consequence. This alone should be enough to disqualify Chinese telecom equipment from critical areas in my opinion. I'd expect the CCP to take similar precautions where feasible.
- throwaway1777 4y agoWhat’s the problem? I always thought most of these systems will fail closed not just randomly explode if not maintained.
- evilos 4y agoIt's true that modern nukes do not go off accidentally. But solid fueled rocket propellant in ICBMs can be pretty touchy and they have a shelf life. Or the failure could be on the command and control side like what happened in 1983 [1]. Soviet early warning systems malfunctioned and reported multiple ICBM launches. The officer in charge basically decided to ignore it and single handedly prevented the end of human civilisation. This was at the height of the Cold War before the Russian army was drained of competence. I can't imagine those systems are working as well as they did back then. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_al...